This deluxe set of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire," and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet''s Nest"--each unjacketed, bound in full cloth, and uniquely stamped, with maps and individual full-color endpapers, in a slipcase--is the perfect collectible for the Larsson fanatic.

Annotation:This collection celebrates the wildly popular Millennium Trilogy by Swedish author Stieg Larsson. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO launched the frenzied phenomenon that the series would become, introducing readers to the brazen hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist. Book two in the trilogy, THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, reveals more about what makes Lisbeth tick and how her fine-tuned sense of justice formed, as she and Mikael fight to clear her name for a murder. And the series comes to a riveting conclusion with THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST. As probably the most popular trilogies to migrate from Scandinavia to the U.S., Larsson's Millennium Trilogy is essential reading for mystery fans and everyone who loves a good story. In addition to each of the major volumes in the trilogy, this box set includes a series of e-mails between Larsson and his editor, as well as essays about the author.

Author Bio

Stieg Larsson

The story of Swedish writer Stieg Larsson is filled with the same mystery, drama, and darkness which mark his phenomenal bestselling trilogy of "Millennium" novels, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, and THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST. ||Larsson was born in a small Swedish village in 1954, and was initially raised by his grandparents. Young Stieg was heavily influenced by his grandfather Severn, a devout anti-fascist who spent time in a work camp during World War II because of his resistance to Sweden's cooperation with the Nazis. After his grandfather died, nine-year-old Stieg moved back in with his parents and younger brother. ||By the time he was a teenager, Larsson was a strong supporter of the Communist party and an active political demonstrator. In 1972, he met Eva Gabrielsson at a protest against the Vietnam War, and they remained a couple for the next 32 years, though they never married for reasons of personal safety. For most of his adult life, Larsson vigorously pursued two passions--anti-fascism and science fiction. In addition to working full-time as a graphic designer, he became a prominent journalist and lecturer campaigning against fascism and hate groups, and also edited several science fiction magazines and was the president of the biggest science fiction fan club in Sweden. In 1991, he published his first nonfiction book, which openly explored Sweden's festering culture of right-wing extremism. One neo-Nazi journal responded to the book by publishing Larsson's photo and address, officially enacting a nefarious campaign against his life which would haunt him to his grave. Larsson eventually became so adept and accustomed to dealing with death threats that he authored a pamphlet instructing other journalists how to protect themselves from such enemies.|In 1995, Larsson founded the Swedish Expo Foundation, and became the editor of "Expo," the foundation's magazine, which was modeled after the British anti-fascist journal "Searchlight." He routinely worked 60-80 hours per week at "Expo," and became even more of a target for right-wing groups. In order to relax at night, Larsson began writing what he originally planned to be a ten-part series of mystery novels starring a journalist named Mikael Blomkvist and a punk-rock computer savant name Lisbeth Salander, whom he imagined as an adult version of Swedish children's icon Pippi Longstocking. Larsson eventually finished three (and a half) novels before he died of a massive heart attack in November of 2004, a few months before his official debut as a mystery writer. As of early 2010, the "Millennium" trilogy has sold more than 27 million copies worldwide. Although Larsson had stated that he wanted the assets of his estate to go towards the Swedish Socialist Party, he never finalized his will, so all of the proceeds of his books have gone to his father and brother, with the Swedish authorities taking a healthy cut thanks to inheritance taxes. But Eva Gabrielsson has the only copy of the uncompleted manuscript for the 4th book, and she has said that she will never publish it unless she gets the rights to Larsson's other books in order to distribute his earnings as he would have wished.

Product Attributes

Book Format:

Hardcover

Number of Pages:

0576

Publisher:

Knopf Publishing Group

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